"Louisiana’s rate of imprisonment is still almost double the national average, and almost three quarters of a billion dollars is spent each year on corrections. Citizens should be experiencing a greater feeling of public safety, but that is not the case.” - Jake Lilly, Former Assistant District Attorney and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney

"When you have a commodity that people are determined to get, but it’s been declared illegal, they’re going to turn to an illegal market. An illegal market is necessarily violent because they can’t avail themselves with any of the normal channels for dispute resolution.”
- Former Prosecutor Inge Fryklund, Cook County (IL) State's Attorney's Office

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